So I had someone I considered my best friend for a very long time. It was close to five years, but we drifted apart. At first, we were talking non-stop and things just changed. There was the ghosting for over a year and no explanation as to why. We used to be super close and inseparable, but now it’s just like none of that stuff happened? We’re both on different paths in life and she’s going to college and has a girlfriend, and I just have no desire to go to college but I’m happy with myself currently. I just chose not to pursue school. All those years we spent talking it went out the window… We have spoken, but it’s not the same. It finally hit me when my birthday passed, and I heard nothing from her, but a few years ago, I got paragraphs about how I was her best friend. And how she hopes I have a great birthday. And that she loves me. It’s funny how things change. Childhood friendships (although we met when I was 17-18 and she was 16.